The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-04-10
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Miss Alice Sandborn has been elected
superintendent of the schools for Brule
Co., Oak, receiving 1000 Of the 1000
votes cast.
The girls OF Bryn Mawr have adopted
toe Oxford cap and gown. Some of the
Vassar students want to do likewise, but
President Taylor forbids.
1t is said that women incline to favor
too severe legislation in the interests of
morality, while men are more apt to carry
federation to an undesirable. extreme.
AT the close of the registration In Leav-
enworlh, Kan, Marcn %, 5268 names
had been entered on the books, /, 764 of
whom were WON n, 438 of the latter being
coloIed.
In England, sipg'e women and widows
have had full municipal suffrage for
eighteen years. Mr. Gladstone says they
exercise it without detrimcnt, and with
great advantage"
Louisa Acott protests againts intro
ducing the ballot into spectacular plays
for the young. She sayssiL is injurious to
The morals of the little girls who look on.
This is quite true; bur It is likely to do
more harm TO the large boys.
Miss Lily Tin 10y. young girl born
in Americ of Chinese parents, is pupil
a the Grass Valley, CAL, school. Some
time since, while on visit to China, Lily
successfully resisted some of the native
customs, toot-prcsslng included. Lily's
father is an ordinary Chinaman, who has
saved money in This country.
Miss r. B, Cummings, now the hbrar-
ian of the Department OF Justice, at
Washington, is daughter of former
justice of the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania. and is regarded as one of the
b, st authorities on law books in the couu-
try. She is literally an encyclopaedia of
reports, rendering Invaluable aid to the
lawyers who use the extensive library of
that department.
Lille DevereuxBldke in the Question"
says: Because of the recent nluIlist at
tempt on the life of the Gar of Russia,
the college for the b ghsr education of
women has been ordered to be closed.
just why WON n must be denied educa
ton because men mint acts of violence
does not appear, excepi on the general
idea prevalent since the time of Adam
that, if men go wrong, women must be
punished
Mrs. Logan gives striking instance
of the Discrimination made in the pay Of
government clerks on account of SEX
She says. 'tNo lady is allowed the same
salary in the higher grade of c!ekships,
no matter how well she f Is the higher
salaried desks, and many of them are to-
day in those positions, but do not receive
the.pay. AS an illus zion, it has hap
pened that in eases of illness or disability
ofmen clerks, thei wives perform ID the
duty of tneir husbands, drawing in their
name the salary as If they had performed
the work. In one case the wife kept up
her husbands desk for three years, dur
ing his illness, receiving the 81 800 per
anuum, and thereby supporting the
family; but from the day of his death.
though she continued the same work, her
salary was nine hundred"
Col. T. w. Higgins says: "An objec-
tion to woman suffrage derived from
want of military service in war seems to
me quite trivial, because ~ women do
actually render such sevice by bringing
soldiers into the world, and by nursing
aud providing for sick or wounded men;
and a. the proportion of men who acta-
ally perform active military service is very
small. and nobody won Il think of giving
them any particular rights as voters in
consequence of such perform anGe. One
such appeal as that of Clara Barton to
the soldiers of the Army of the Potomac
should outweigh a hundred objections
from men who never personally went to
the war. Yet these, | have always OBJ
served, are generally the men most ready
to use this argument against women"